Drummer Quotes - Page 13

• Ted Templeman, the producer, and Donn Landee, the engineer, are the same team that signed Van Halen, when they were called Mammoth. Donn convinced them to change it to the last name of the guitar player and drummer.

  Sammy Hagar

  Team, Player, Guitar

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I think we're all actors. There's this friend of mine who's a great drummer, and he said, "I never thought I'd be a drummer, but I got really good at it. I always feel like I'm an actor playing the drums." His real calling was that he was going to be a magician. That's what he felt like he wanted to do. If you decide to act like a journalist, you'll probably be a better journalist than just being a journalist. What you're doing is, you're taking the executive role and stepping outside yourself so that you're able to make more objective decisions.

  Matt Dillon

  Real, Thinking, Decision

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside. They don't waste energy marching to the same drummer most of us do. It gives us an opportunity to look at things in a different way, which is the purest thing cinema can do.

  Willem Dafoe

  Opportunity, People, Giving

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I recall improvisational drummer and composer Michael Evans telling me a story of someone who had the opportunity to meet Cage and give him a record, and John Cage just smiled and said, "You know I have nothing to play this on?"

  David Grubbs

  Opportunity, Giving, Just Smile

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• As far as the people that have inspired me, they're the people that I have played with the most. For example, the record that I made called Virtue, there was a wonderful band and a wonderful drummer by the name of Ludwig Afonso and a wonderful bass player by the name of Armando Gola.

  Eldar Djangirov

  Player, People, Inspired

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• I did pull out my old Telecaster, and have been thinking I'd like to play that loud with a drummer. But I haven't actually done that yet.

  Bill Orcutt

  Thinking, Play, Done

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The majority of my training was as a drummer, and drummers are basically accompanists.

  Z'EV

  Training, Majority, Accompanists

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

  Matt Tong

  Guitar, Trying, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You simply cannot give to the world all that you have to give to the world if you do not remain true to your own "selfish" desires. You have a unique set of precious values that can only be fulfilled by pursuing what drives you the most: your passions and dreams. Could Thomas Edison have tended to the downtrodden as Mother Teresa did? Could Albert Einstein have preached salvation as Martin Luther King Jr. did? Could Abraham Lincoln have built cars like Henry Ford? Always, the masses benefit from the individuals who insist on marching to the beat of their own drummer.

  Mike Dooley

  Mother, Dream, Kings

  Mike Dooley (2009). “Choose Them Wisely: Thoughts Become Things!”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording.

  Slim Moon

  Metallica, Worst, Heard

  "Keep the Things You Forgot: An Elliott Smith Oral History" by Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. October 21, 2013.

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• We went to South America on a trip and all I had was a Robert Johnson album. So that's a definite influence on the album. My bandmates John [Stanier, drummer] and Henry [Bogdan, bassist] were interested in expanding their roles as writers, so that had a positive impact on the record.

  Page Hamilton

  Impact, America, Albums

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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• I'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take a solo. I mean, that's what it is. I'd much rather hear that than the jazz/rock thing because it's blowing an aspect of jazz that I really like...the level where you can snap your fingers to it and you can groove to it. You can do anything to it.

  Van Morrison

  New York, Mean, Rocks

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• I've always created solo work. When I first came to New York I was working in a few different areas; I was working as a drummer, a vocalist, an actor, and a dancer. I had gotten picked up more on the music side and that sort of went, and that's where I found my community in New York and that's the path that I went down.

  Guillermo E. Brown

  New York, Dancer, Community

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.

  Miles Davis

  Want

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• The reason [drummers] call things "unison", and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat; it's so slight that they call it "unison", but it's not unison.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Two, Sound

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Littles, Sometimes

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that's even - I can write something.

  Miles Davis

  Writing, Half, Beats

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had a number of classes with him.

  Jon Gordon

  Nice, Numbers, Class

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• I've been thankful to work with some wonderful people and sort of combine forces with some folks that... like in recent years, working with Alan Ferber or his brother Mark who's a wonderful drummer.

  Jon Gordon

  Brother, Years, People

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• I don't take myself that seriously when it comes down to that stuff. My drummer is my favorite drummer in the world, and he also happens to be the funniest person you'll meet. He's a constant reminder every time stuff gets a little too heavy, maybe I have a bad show or I'll hit a horrible note on some recorded TV thing or something, and he's like, "Man don't take yourself so seriously - this is a joke, we're playing music." And that's a great thing to keep me grounded at all times. We're not saving lives, but the power does help us.

  Aaron Bruno

  Men, World, Helping

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• You'd probably never recognize the drummer from your favorite band ever, if they walked past you on the street. I didn't even recognize the drummer from Pink Floyd the other day, and they're one of the biggest bands in the world ever. That's their choice, they're not the front man, they don't want to be, they want to be behind their drum kit. They're always the ones in the photo shoots that look slightly uncomfortable when they're forced to wear a leather jacket.

  Dominic Cooper

  Past, Men, Choices

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• I was in orchestra in high school, but I really started when a friend of mine who's a drummer showed me some things. I was always just really fascinated with drums, it was the instrument I was always drawn towards. My ear sort of went to rhythmic aspects of music and songs.

  Carla Azar

  Song, School, High School

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I read a lot. I spend of lot time thinking. It actually looks like I'm doing nothing, but... hanging out with clever and interesting people is a must if you're writing comedy, like hanging out with a good bass player when you're a drummer.

  Al Murray

  Clever, Writing, Player

  Source: www.roland.co.uk

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• I love playing. In lots of ways, I think having been able to carry on playing purely out of love rather than having to do it for a living means I still love the drums. It helps that, if I don't want to play, I don't really have to! I'm not the best drummer in the world, but it's something I love and enjoy, and that sounds like a good trade.

  Al Murray

  Mean, Thinking, World

  Source: www.roland.co.uk

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• To women, drummers seem like these adorable, sexy Neanderthals, but lead singers seem mysterious and dangerous. So while the lead singers all want to be David Bowie, floating into parties and being the center of attention, it's the drummers who are in the corner doing keg stands and breaking tables. Usually it's the drummers who get the fun-loving ladies and the singers who get the nutcases.

  Dave Grohl

  Sexy, Party, Adorable

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